contextus

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contextus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from contexo.

contextus, ūs, m. [contexo], a joining or putting together, a connection (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif., and in Quint.).

Lit.: corporum, * Lucr. 1, 243:

aedificiorum,

the building of, Dig. 39, 2, 15:

ratis,

Aus. Per. Odyss. 5.—

Trop., connection, coherence (very freq. in Quint.):

mirabilis est apud illos (sc. Stoicos) contextus rerum: respondent extrema primis, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; cf.:

in toto quasi contextu orationis,

id. Part. Or. 23, 82; and:

rerum ac verborum,

Quint. 11, 2, 2:

verborum,

id. 11, 2, 28; 11, 2, 24:

sermonis,

id. 8, 3, 38:

dicendi,

id. 10, 7, 26:

per partes dissolvitur, quod contextu nocet,

id. 5, 13, 28; 9, 4, 55. historia non tam finitos numeros quam orbem quendam contextumque desiderat, id. 9, 4, 129; cf.

Ernest. Lex. Techn. p. 90: litterarum,

the succession of the letters, id. 1, 1, 24 sq.; cf.:

in contextu operis,

in the course, Tac. H. 2, 8.

caudex, ĭcis, m. (more recent orthography cōdex) [etym. dub.; cf. cauda].

The trunk of a tree, the stock, stem (rare).

Caudex, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 121; 12, 15, 34, § 67; Verg. G. 2, 30 et saep.—

Codex, Ov. M. 12, 432; Col. 4, 8, 2; 5, 6, 21.— Hence,

The block of wood to which one was bound for punishment:

codex,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 39; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 44; Juv. 2, 57. —

A term of reproach, block, dolt, blockhead:

caudex,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 4; Petr. 74.—

Inpartic.

A block of wood split or sawn into planks, leaves or tablets and fastened together:

quia plurium tabularum contextus caudex apud antiquos vocatur,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4: quod antiqui pluris tabulas conjunctas codices dicebant, Varr. ap. Non. p. 535, 20.—Hence,

(Since the ancients orig. wrote upon tablets of wood smeared with wax.) A book, a writing (its leaves were not, like the volumina, rolled within one another, but, like those of our books, lay over one another; cf. Dict. of Antiq.).

Caudex, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Ant. 1, 2.—

Codex, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; id. Clu. 33, 91; Quint. 10, 3, 28; Dig. 32, 1, 52 al.—

Esp. of an accountbook and particularly of a ledger (while adversaria signifies the waste-book; hence only the former was of any validity in law): non habere se hoc nomen ( this item) in codice accepti et expensi relatum confitetur:

sed in adversariis patere contendit, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 2, 5; v. the passage in connection; cf. id. ib. 3, 9: in codicis extremā cerā (i. e. upon the last tablet), id. Verr. 2, 1, 36. §

92: referre in codicem,

id. Sull. 15, 44.—

A code of laws: Codex Theodosianus, Justinianus, etc.; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.

Caudex, cis, m., a Roman cognomen: App. Claudius Caudex, consul A. U. C. 490, B. C. 264, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4; Aur. Vict. 37.

caudex, ĭcis, m. (more recent orthography cōdex) [etym. dub.; cf. cauda].

The trunk of a tree, the stock, stem (rare).

Caudex, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 121; 12, 15, 34, § 67; Verg. G. 2, 30 et saep.—

Codex, Ov. M. 12, 432; Col. 4, 8, 2; 5, 6, 21.— Hence,

The block of wood to which one was bound for punishment:

codex,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 39; Prop. 4 (5), 7, 44; Juv. 2, 57. —

A term of reproach, block, dolt, blockhead:

caudex,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 4; Petr. 74.—

Inpartic.

A block of wood split or sawn into planks, leaves or tablets and fastened together:

quia plurium tabularum contextus caudex apud antiquos vocatur,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4: quod antiqui pluris tabulas conjunctas codices dicebant, Varr. ap. Non. p. 535, 20.—Hence,

(Since the ancients orig. wrote upon tablets of wood smeared with wax.) A book, a writing (its leaves were not, like the volumina, rolled within one another, but, like those of our books, lay over one another; cf. Dict. of Antiq.).

Caudex, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Ant. 1, 2.—

Codex, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 46, § 119; id. Clu. 33, 91; Quint. 10, 3, 28; Dig. 32, 1, 52 al.—

Esp. of an accountbook and particularly of a ledger (while adversaria signifies the waste-book; hence only the former was of any validity in law): non habere se hoc nomen ( this item) in codice accepti et expensi relatum confitetur:

sed in adversariis patere contendit, etc.,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 2, 5; v. the passage in connection; cf. id. ib. 3, 9: in codicis extremā cerā (i. e. upon the last tablet), id. Verr. 2, 1, 36. §

92: referre in codicem,

id. Sull. 15, 44.—

A code of laws: Codex Theodosianus, Justinianus, etc.; cf. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.

Caudex, cis, m., a Roman cognomen: App. Claudius Caudex, consul A. U. C. 490, B. C. 264, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 4; Aur. Vict. 37.

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

con-texo, xŭi, xtum, 3, v. a. and n.

Act., to weave, entwine, braid, join together; to interweave, unite, connect (class. in prose and poetry).

In gen.

Prop.:

ut earum (ovium) villis confectis atque contextis homines vestiantur?

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

alba lilia amarantis,

Tib. 3, 4, 33: haec directā materiā injecta contexebantur, these ( beams) were held together by timbers laid in a straight direction, Caes. B. G. 4, 17; so id. ib. 7, 23, 4 (cf. Jahn, Neue Jahrb. 1855, p. 516 sq.):

fossam loricamque,

Tac. A. 4, 49:

nec tam contextae cum sint (animae cum corporibus),

Lucr. 3, 695.—With dat. (post-Aug.):

optime epilogum defensioni contexit,

Sen. Contr. 7 (3), 20, 7:

sceleribus scelera contexens,

Sen. Ira, 1, 16, 3.—

Trop.:

quid est aetas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur?

Cic. Or. 34, 120:

conjuncte nostra cum reliquis rebus,

id. Fam. 5, 12, 2:

extrema cum primis,

id. ib. 10, 13, 2:

his et plasticen,

Plin. 35, 12, 43, § 151:

partes,

Quint. 4, prooem. 7;

11, 1, 6: in verbis singulis et contextis,

id. 9, 4, 23 al.:

longius hoc carmen,

to weave on, continue, Cic. Cael. 8, 18; cf.

interrupta,

id. Leg. 1, 3, 9:

Caesaris nostri commentarios rerum gestarum Galliae, Auct. B. G. 8, prooem.: quae statim referri non poterant, contexuntur postero die,

Quint. 11, 2, 43.—

Esp., to join together, to compose, make, construct, form, put together (cf.: compono, conecto, consero, etc.).

Lit.:

equum trabibus acernis,

Verg. A. 2, 112:

puppes tenui cannā,

Val. Fl. 2, 108:

saccum tenui vimine,

Col. 9, 15, 12.—

Trop.:

orationem,

Quint. 10, 6, 2; cf.

librum,

Sen. Ep. 114, 18:

crimen,

to devise, contrive, invent, Cic. Deiot. 6, 19.—

Neutr.: contexere de aliquā re, to treat of:

de sili,

Plin. 20, 5, 18, § 36.—Hence, contextus, a, um, P. a., cohering, connected:

contexta condensaque corpora (opp. diffusa),

Lucr. 4, 57:

oratio alia vincta atque contexta, soluta alia,

Quint. 9, 4, 19: tropos ille (corresp. with continua metaphora), id. 9, 2, 46.—

* Adv.: contex-tē, connected together, in close connection:

omnia necesse est colligatione naturali conserte contexteque fieri,

Cic. Fat. 14, 32.

flŭo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic form of the sup.: FLUCTUM, acc. to Prisc. p. 817 P.; cf.: fluo, fluctum, Not. Tir. From this form are derived fluctio and fluctus. In Lucr. 6, 800, the correct read. is laveris, not flueris, v. Lachm. ad h. l.), v. n. [Gr. phlu-, phlusai, anaphluô, etc.; Lat. fleo, fletus; flumen, fluctus, etc.; orig. one root with fla-, to blow, q. v. and cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 302], to flow (cf.: mano, labor, etc.).

Lit.: per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.:

ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint,

Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78:

flumen quod inter eum et Domitii castra fluebat,

Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1; cf.

also: aurea tum dicat per terras flumina vulgo Fluxisse,

Lucr. 5, 911:

fluvius Eurotas, qui propter Lacedaemonem fluit,

Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96:

Helvetiorum inter fines et Allobrogum Rhodanus fluit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 2:

Arar in utram partem fluat,

id. ib. 1, 12, 1:

ea, quae natura fluerent atque manarent, ut aqua,

Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 39: fluens unda, water from a stream (opp.: putealis unda, spring-water), Col. 1, 5, 1:

in foveam,

Lucr. 2, 475; cf. id. 5, 271:

fluxit in terram Remi cruor,

Hor. Epod. 7, 19; cf. Luc. 6, 61:

imber,

Ov. P. 4, 4, 2:

sanguis,

id. M. 12, 312:

fluit de corpore sudor,

id. ib. 9, 173; cf.:

sudor fluit undique rivis,

Verg. A. 5, 200:

aes rivis,

id. ib. 8, 445:

nudo sub pede musta fluunt,

Ov. R. Am. 190:

madidis fluit unda capillis,

drips, id. M. 11, 656:

cerebrum molle fluit,

id. ib. 12, 435:

fluunt lacrimae more perennis aquae,

id. F. 2, 820:

fluens nausea,

Hor. Epod. 9, 35; cf.:

alvus fluens,

Cels. 2, 6:

fluit ignibus aurum,

becomes fluid, melts, Ov. M. 2, 251.—

Transf.

Of bodies, to flow, overflow, run down, drip with any fluid.— With abl.:

cum fluvius Atratus sanguine fluxit,

Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98; Ov. M. 8, 400:

cruore fluens,

id. ib. 7, 343:

sudore fluentia brachia,

id. ib. 9, 57; cf.:

fluunt sudore et lassitudine membra,

Liv. 38, 17, 7; 7, 33, 14; cf. id. 10, 28, 4:

pingui fluit unguine tellus,

Val. Fl. 6, 360:

vilisque rubenti Fluxit mulctra mero,

overflows, Sil. 7, 190. —Without abl.:

madidāque fluens in veste Menoetes,

Verg. A. 5, 179:

fluentes cerussataeque buccae,

dripping with paint, Cic. Pis. 11, 25 (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266, 2. b. infra):

Graeculae vites acinorum exiguitate minus fluunt,

i. e. yield but little wine, Col. 3, 2, 24; 3, 2, 5; 12, 52, 1.—With acc. of kin. signif.:

Oenotria vina fluens,

Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 264.—

To move in the manner of fluids, to flow, stream, pour:

inde alium (aëra) supra fluere,

to flow, Lucr. 5, 514 and 522:

unde fluens volvat varius se fluctus odorum,

id. 4, 675 sq.; cf.:

principio omnibus a rebus, quascumque videmus, Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora, quae feriant oculos visumque lacessant: Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor a sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris,

id. 6, 922 sq.:

aestus e lapide,

id. 6, 1002:

venti,

id. 1, 280:

fluit undique victor Mulciber,

Sil. 17, 102:

comae per levia colla fluentes,

flowing, spreading, Prop. 2, 3, 13; cf.:

blanditiaeque fluant per mea colla rosae,

id. 4 (5), 6, 72:

vestis fluens,

flowing, loose, id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 32:

tunicisque fluentibus,

Ov. A. A. 3, 301:

nodoque sinus collecta fluentes,

Verg. A. 1, 320; cf.

also: balteus nec strangulet nec fluat,

Quint. 11, 3, 140:

nec mersa est pelago, nec fluit ulla ratis,

floats, is tossed about, Mart. 4, 66, 14:

ramos compesce fluentes,

floating around, spreading out, Verg. G. 2, 370:

ad terram fluit devexo pondere cervix,

droops, id. ib. 3, 524:

omnisque relictis Turba fluit castris,

pour forth, id. A. 12, 444:

olli fluunt ad regia tecta,

id. ib. 11, 236;

so of a multitude or crowd of men: densatis ordinibus effuse fluentem in se aciem excepere,

Curt. 6, 1, 6.—

Pregn., of bodies, to pass away, fall away, to fall off or out, to vanish:

excident gladii, fluent arma de manibus,

Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8:

capilli fluunt,

Cels. 6, 1; Plin. 27, 4, 5, § 17:

sponte fluent (poma) matura suā,

Ov. Am. 2, 14, 25:

quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo,

Lucr. 2, 69; cf.:

cuncta fluunt omnisque vagans formatur imago,

Ov. M. 15, 178: dissolvuntur enim tum demum membra fluuntque, Lucr. 4, 919:

surae fluxere,

Luc. 9, 770:

buccae fluentes,

fallen in, lank, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266.

Trop.

In gen., to flow, spring, arise, come forth; to go, proceed:

ex ejus (Nestoris) lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio,

Cic. de Sen. 10, 31:

carmen vena pauperiore fluit,

Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 20:

Calidii oratio ita libere fluebat, ut nusquam adhaeresceret,

Cic. Brut. 79, 274:

in Herodoto omnia leniter fluunt,

Quint. 9, 4, 18; cf.

also: grammatice pleno jam satis alveo fluit,

id. 2, 1, 4:

quae totis viribus fluit oratio,

id. 9, 4, 7:

oratio ferri debet ac fluere,

id. 9, 4, 112.— Transf., of the writer himself:

alter (Herodotus) sine ullis salebris quasi sedatus amnis fluit,

Cic. Or. 12, 39; cf.:

(Lucilius) cum flueret lutulentus,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 11; 1, 10, 50; 1, 7, 28:

facetiis,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 12:

multa ab ea (luna) manant et fluunt, quibus animantes alantur augescantque,

Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50:

haec omnia ex eodem fonte fluxerunt,

id. ib. 3, 19, 48:

dicendi facultatem ex intimis sapientiae fontibus fluere,

Quint. 12, 2, 6; 5, 10, 19; 5, 9, 14:

omnia ex natura rerum hominumque fluere,

id. 6, 2, 13:

nomen ex Graeco fluxisse,

id. 3, 4, 12:

ab isto capite fluere necesse est omnem rationem bonorum et malorum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 34; Quint. 1, 1, 12:

unde id quoque vitium fluit,

id. 11, 3, 109; 7, 3, 33:

Pythagorae doctrina cum longe lateque flueret,

spread itself, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2:

multum fluxisse video de libris nostris variumque sermonem,

id. N. D. 1, 3, 6:

sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora,

flow, pass, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23:

in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem nostram fluentibus,

going, Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: rebus supra votum fluentibus, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 169 (Hist. 1, 101 Dietsch); Tac. H. 3, 48; Just. 23, 3; cf.:

rebus prospere fluentibus,

succeeding, prospering, Tac. Or. 5; id. A. 15, 5: illius rationes quorsum fluant, proceed, Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 4; cf.:

res fluit ad interregnum,

Cic. Att. 4, 16, 11;

cuncta in Mithridatem fluxere,

Tac. A. 11, 9.—

In partic.

Of speech, etc., to flow uniformly, be monotonous:

efficiendum est ne fluat oratio, ne vagetur, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190:

quod species ipsa carminum docet, non impetu et instinctu nec ore uno fluens,

Tac. A. 14, 16; cf. Cic. Brut. 79.—Pregn., to dissolve, vanish, perish:

qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus fluimusque mollitia,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

fluens mollitiis,

Vell. 1, 6, 2; 2, 88, 2:

cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi, nec diutius esse uno et eodem statu,

Cic. Or. 3, 10:

fluit voluptas corporis et prima quaeque avolat,

id. Fin. 2, 32, 106:

fluentem procumbentemque rem publicam populi Romani restituere,

Vell. 2, 16 fin. —Hence,

fluens, entis, P. a.

Lax, relaxed, debauched, enervated, effeminate:

inde soluti ac fluentes non accipiunt e scholis mala ista, sed in scholas afferunt,

Quint. 1, 2, 8:

Campani fluentes luxu,

Liv. 7, 29, 5:

incessu ipso ultra muliebrem mollitiem fluentes,

Sen. Tranq. 15:

fluentibus membris, incessu femineo,

Aug. Civ. D. 7, 26.—

Of speech,

Flowing, fluent:

sed in his tracta quaedam et fluens expetitur, non haec contorta et acris oratio,

Cic. Or. 20, 66:

lenis et fluens contextus,

Quint. 9, 4, 127.—

Lax, unrestrained:

ne immoderata aut angusta aut dissoluta aut fluens sit oratio,

Cic. Or. 58, 198:

dissipata et inculta et fluens oratio,

id. ib. 65, 220;

and transf. of the speaker: in locis ac descriptionibus fusi ac fluentes sumus,

Quint. 9, 4, 138.— Adv.: flŭenter, in a flowing, waving manner (very rare):

res quaeque fluenter fertur,

Lucr. 6, 935 (but not ib. 520, where the correct read. is cientur;

v. Lachm.): capillo fluenter undante,

App. M. 2, p. 122, 7. —

fluxus, a, um, P. a. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit., flowing, fluid:

elementa arida atque fluxa, App. de Mundo: sucus,

Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133:

vas fluxum pertusumque,

i. e. leaking, Lucr. 6, 20.—

Transf., flowing, loose, slack:

ipsa crine fluxo thyrsum quatiens,

Tac. A. 11, 31:

habena,

Liv. 38, 29, 6:

amictus,

Luc. 2, 362; cf.:

ut cingeretur fluxiore cinctura,

Suet. Caes. 45 fin.:

fluxa arma,

hanging slack, loose, Tac. H. 2, 99.—

Pregn., frail, perishable, weak:

corpora,

Tac. H. 2, 32; cf.:

spadone eviratior fluxo,

Mart. 5, 41, 1:

(murorum) aevo fluxa,

Tac. H. 2, 22. —

Trop.

Lax, loose, dissolute, careless:

animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,

Sall. C. 14, 5: cf.:

animi fluxioris esse,

Suet. Tib. 52:

duces noctu dieque fluxi,

Tac. H. 3, 76:

spectaculum non enerve nec fluxum,

Plin. Pan. 33, 1:

fluxa atque aperta securitas,

Gell. 4, 20, 8.—

Pregn., frail, weak, fleeting, transient, perishable:

res nostrae ut in secundis fluxae, ut in adversis bonae,

decayed, impaired, disordered, Cic. Att. 4, 2, 1: hujus belli fortuna, ut in secundis, fluxa;

ut in adversis, bona,

id. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2:

res humanae fluxae et mobiles,

Sall. J. 104, 2:

divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,

id. C. 1, 4; cf.:

instabile et fluxum,

Tac. A. 13, 19:

fluxa auctoritas,

id. H. 1, 21:

cave fidem fluxam geras,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79:

fides,

Sall. J. 111, 2; Liv. 40, 50, 5; cf.:

fluxa et vana fides,

unreliable, unstable, id. 28, 6, 11; Tac. H. 2, 75; 4, 23:

studia inania et fluxa,

id. A. 3, 50 fin.:

fluxa senio mens,

id. ib. 6, 38.— Adv.: fluxē, remissly, negligently (post-class. and rare):

more vitae remissioris fluxius agens,

Amm. 18, 7.

lēnis, e, adj. [cf. lentus], soft, smooth, mild, gentle, easy, calm.

Lit.:

sensus judicat dulce, amarum: lene, asperum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 12, 36; id. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

vehemens fricatio spissat, lenis mollit,

Plin. 28, 4, 14, § 53:

vinum hoc asperum est: aliud lenius, sodes, vide,

Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 48:

lenibus venenis uti,

Cic. Att. 2, 21, 1:

lenissimus ventus,

id. ib. 7, 2, 1:

motus laterum,

moderate, gentle, Quint. 11, 3, 92; 161:

leni igni sucus coquitur,

Plin. 21, 18, 73, § 122.—Of the Nile:

postea lenis,

Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 54:

tormentum,

Hor. C. 3, 21, 13:

volatus,

Ov. M. 12, 527:

somnus,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 21.—Of heights, gently or gradually rising:

clivus,

Liv. 6, 24; cf. id. 29, 33.— Comp.:

jugum paulo leniore fastigio ab ea parte quae, etc.,

Caes. B. C. 2, 24;

so fastigium,

Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 158.—

Trop., gentle, moderate, mild, lenient, calm.

In gen.:

servitutem lenem reddere,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 5:

Ecce me. Opusne (erit tibi) leni? leniorem dices quam mutumst mare,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 70:

homo lenis et facilis,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9:

populus Romanus in hostes lenissimus,

id. Rosc. Am. 53, 154:

lenissima verba,

id. Fam. 5, 15, 1:

lenissimum ingenium,

id. Brut. 56, 204: lenior sententia, Caes. B. C. 1, 2: lene consilium dare, Hor C. 3, 4, 41.—

With inf.:

non lenis precibus fata recludere Mercurius,

Hor. C. 1, 24, 17.—

In partic.

Of speech, mild, gentle:

oratio placida, submissa, lenis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 43, 183:

lenis et fluens contextus orationis,

Quint. 9, 4, 127:

leniores epilogi,

id. 6, 1, 50.—

In gram.: spiritus, the spiritus lenis, the smooth or soft breathing (opp. the spiritus asper), Prisc. p. 572 P.— Hence, adv. in two forms.

lēne (only poet.), softly, mildly, gently:

sectus humum rivo, lene sonantis aquae,

Ov. F. 2, 704:

clivi lene jacentes,

gently rising, Calp. Ecl. 7, 25:

lene fluens fons,

Nemes. Ecl. 4, 47:

lene Notus spirat,

Avien. Descript. Orb. 857.—

lēnĭter (class.), softly, mildly, gently.

Lit.:

leniter arridens,

Cic. Rep. 6, 12, 12:

leniter atterens Caudam,

Hor. C. 2, 19, 30:

ventus leniter pluvius,

Plin. 18, 34, 77, § 337:

leniter ire per excubias custodum,

Ov. Am. 1, 6, 7: collis leniter acclivis, gradually or gently rising, Caes. B. G. 7, 19; so,

editus collis,

Liv. 2, 50.— Comp.:

torrens lenius decurrit,

Ov. M. 3, 568.—

Trop., quietly, calmly, gently, moderately, leniently.

In gen.:

tentem leniter an minaciter?

Plaut. Stich. 1, 2, 20:

petere quippiam ab aliquo dictis bonis,

id. Am. prol. 25:

ferre aliquid,

Ov. H. 5, 7:

traducere aevum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 97:

nimis leniter latam suam injuriam ratus,

Liv. 29, 9 (al. leviter).— Sup.:

lenissime sentire,

Cic. Fam. 5, 2, 9.—

In partic.

Of speech:

multa leniter, multa aspere dicta sunt,

Cic. Brut. 44, 164:

agit versum Roscius quam leniter, quam remisse, quam non actuose,

id. de Or. 3, 26, 102.— Comp.:

qui jamdiu multo dicis remissius et lenius quam solebas,

Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 255.—

Moderately, i. e. very little, not at all:

hoc leniter laudabitis,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 3, 40; 3, 3, 9:

leniter qui saeviunt sapiunt magis,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 4.—

In a bad sense, remissly, indolently:

si cunctetur atque agat lenius,

too slowly, Caes. B. C. 1, 1.

lenis, is, m., a kind of vessel, Afran. and Laber. ap. Non. 544, 31.

rārus, a, um, adj. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. root rah-, to abandon], having wide interstices between its parts, of a loose texture, not thick or dense, thin (opp. densus; freq. and class.).

Lit.:

denseri poterunt ignes, rarique relinqui,

Lucr. 1, 656; cf.:

(terra) Rara sit an supra morem si densa requiras... Densa magis Cereri, rarissima quaeque Lyaeo,

Verg. G. 2, 227 sq.; 1, 419:

textura,

Lucr. 4, 196; cf.

retia,

Verg. A. 4, 131; Hor. Epod. 2, 33:

tunica,

Ov. Am. 1, 5, 13; and:

cribrum,

id. M. 12, 437:

rariores silvae,

the thinner, clearer parts of the forest, Tac. Agr. 37:

seges,

Col. 2, 9, 6:

corpus (opp. solidae res),

Lucr. 1, 347; 2, 860; 6, 631 al.:

aër,

id. 2, 107; cf. in the comp., id. 6, 1024:

manus,

i.e. with the fingers spread apart, Quint. 11, 3, 103:

raraque non fracto vestigia pulvere pendent,

i.e. scarcely visible, Stat. Th. 6, 640.—

Transf.

Of things which stand apart from each other, far apart, here and there, scattered, thin, scanty ( = disjectus;

opp. densus, confertus): cum raris disjectisque ex aedificiis pabulum conquireretur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 10; cf.:

vides habitari in terrā raris et angustis in locis,

scattered, Cic. Rep. 6, 19, 20:

apparent rari nantes,

Verg. A. 1, 118:

foramina,

Lucr. 5, 457:

bacae expanduntur rarae,

Plin. 17, 10, 11, § 60:

frutices in vertice,

Ov. H. 10, 25:

coma,

id. Am. 1, 8, 111; cf. capillus. Suet. Calig. 50:

racemi,

Verg. E. 5, 7:

umbra,

id. ib. 7, 46:

arbores,

Nep. Milt. 5, 3:

tela,

Ov. M. 12, 600 et saep. — Poet.:

manat rara meas lacrima per genas,

drop by drop, Hor. C. 4, 1, 34. —

In partic., in military lang., far apart, here and there, scattered about, dispersed, straggling, single (opp. confertus). accedebat huc, ut numquam conferti, sed rari magnisque intervallis proeliarentur, Caes. B. G. 5, 16; cf.:

rari in confertos illati,

Liv. 23, 27:

ipsi ex silvis rari propugnabant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 9; 5, 17; 7, 45; 7, 80; id. B. C. 1, 27 fin.:

Samnites raris ordinibus constiterant,

Liv. 9, 27; Curt. 4, 14, 14:

rara est acies,

Verg. A. 9, 508:

rarior acies,

Tac. H. 3, 25; Front. Strat. 3, 10, 4:

rarior acies,

Curt. 4, 15, 20: ut ordines suos non magnopere servarent. [p. 1525] rari dispersique pugnarent, Caes. B. C. 1, 44; cf. Tac. Agr. 37 fin.; Front. Strat. 1, 5, 23.—

Of any thing found in small numbers or which seldom takes place, few, rare (cf. paucus):

in omni arte... ut in ipsă virtute, optimum quidque rarissimum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 25, 81; cf.:

rarum genus (amicorum) et quidem omnia praeclara rara,

id. Lael. 21, 79:

raris ac prope nullis portibus,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.:

etiamsi rarus ejus rei, nonnullus tamen usus,

Quint. 8, 6, 30:

rarus enim est animus ad ea defendenda,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 7 Dietsch:

Idem rarum est, non sine usu tamen,

Quint. 5, 11, 42:

rari domos, plurimi amicorum tecta... petivere,

Tac. H. 1, 79 fin.:

Oceanus raris ab orbe nostro navibus aditur,

id. G. 2:

aliquod solitarium aut rarum,

Cic. Inv. 1, 44, 83:

ut anteponantur rara vulgaribus,

id. Top. 18, 69:

litterae,

Liv. 6, 1; cf. id. 7, 3:

rara hostium apparebant arma,

id. 2, 50:

lites,

Quint. 7, 1, 43:

infelicitas,

id. 11, 2, 49:

quae (littera) est apud nos rarissima in clausulis,

id. 12, 10, 31:

quod est magis rarum,

id. 9, 2, 73:

ex maxime raro genere hominum,

Cic. Lael. 17, 64; cf. Quint. 7, 3, 25:

raris vocibus hisco,

Verg. A. 3, 314:

rara per ignotos errent animalia montes,

id. E. 6, 40:

audiet pugnas vitio parentum Rara juventus,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 24. —Rarum est, with ut:

rarum est, ut, etc.,

Quint. 3, 10, 3; 6, 3, 38; 10, 7, 24:

rarum dictu, esse aliquid, cui prosit neglegentia,

Plin. 18, 16, 39, § 140.—

Mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the adv. raro, seldom, rarely:

nec Iliacos coetus nisi rarus adibat,

Ov. M. 11, 766; cf.:

rarus, qui tam procul a portu recessisset, reperiebatur,

Quint. 12, prooem. § 3; so,

rarus fuit, qui, etc.,

id. 6, 2, 3:

antiquis scriptoribus rarus obtrectator,

Tac. A. 4, 33; Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 22, p. 233 Gerl.:

Caesar rarus egressu,

Tac. A. 15, 53; cf.:

leones rari in potu,

Plin. 8, 16, 18, § 46:

(calculus) rarus inventu,

id. 28, 15, 61, § 217; cf.:

helxine rara visu est,

id. 21, 16, 56, § 96:

Homerus alias circa picturas pigmentaque rarus,

i. e. rarely speaks of them, id. 33, 7, 38, § 115 —

Poet., in partic., uncommon of its kind, scarce, rare, extraordinary, remarkable:

rara puella fuit,

Prop. 1, 17, 16; so,

Cynthia,

id. 1, 8, 42:

ministra deae,

id. 4 (5), 11, 52; cf.:

rara quidem facie, sed rarior arte canendi,

Ov. M. 14, 337:

facies,

id. H. 17, 93 Ruhnk.:

vestis,

Cat. 69, 3:

avis (sc. pavo),

Hor. S. 2, 2, 26:

fides,

id. C. 1, 35, 21:

artis opus rarae,

Tib. 3, 4, 37:

patulis rarissima ramis,

Ov. M. 7, 622:

rarissima turba,

id. A. A. 2, 281:

rarissimi ingenii homo,

Sen. Contr. 28:

conjux rarissima,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 11.— Hence, adv., usually raro (class.), but sometimes rare (ante - class. and postAug.), rarenter (ante- and post - class.), or rariter (late Lat.).

Form rārō:

raro nimium dabat quod biberem,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 20:

potavi, edi, donavi, et enim id raro,

id. Bacch. 4, 10, 6:

si id, quod raro fit, fieri omnino negetur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 43, 80:

evenire insolenter et raro (opp. vulgo),

id. ib. 1, 28, 43:

vinum aegrotis prodest raro, nocet saepissime,

id. N. D. 3, 27, 69; id. de Or. 3, 52, 101; cf. id. Or. 24, 80:

sed tamen raro habet in oratione poeticum aliquod verbum dignitatem,

id. de Or. 3, 38, 153:

raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit poena,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 31: admodum raro, Cic. Fat. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12;

for which we find raro admodum,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135:

raro umquam,

Quint. 4, 1, 4; 5, 7, 22; Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 93:

ita raro,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 13, 37:

sic raro,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 1:

tam raro,

Ov. M. 13, 117:

quam raro,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 25:

perquam raro,

Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 55.— Comp.:

quod si rarius fiet, quam tu exspectabis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 1.— Sup.:

istud rarissime accidere,

Col. 5, 5, 7:

non affari nisi rarissime,

Suet. Claud. 3.—

Form rārē (acc. to I.), far apart, thinly, sparsely, here and there:

nisi rare conseritur, vanam et minutam spicam facit,

Col. 2, 9, 5:

tenui vimine rarius contextus saccus,

id. 9, 15, 12.—

(Acc. to II. B.) Of time, seldom, rarely:

vero rare capitur (piscis),

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 56.—

Form rārenter, seldom, rarely:

dato rarenter bibere,

Cato, R. R. 103; so, rarenter, Liv. And., Enn., Caecil., Nov., Trab., Pompon. ap. Non. 515, 23 sq.; 164, 25 sq.; App. Flor. 3, p. 357, 22. —

Form rārĭter (very rare): quidquid fit rariter, magis delectat, Schol. Juv. 11, 208.

rārus, a, um, adj. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. root rah-, to abandon], having wide interstices between its parts, of a loose texture, not thick or dense, thin (opp. densus; freq. and class.).

Lit.:

denseri poterunt ignes, rarique relinqui,

Lucr. 1, 656; cf.:

(terra) Rara sit an supra morem si densa requiras... Densa magis Cereri, rarissima quaeque Lyaeo,

Verg. G. 2, 227 sq.; 1, 419:

textura,

Lucr. 4, 196; cf.

retia,

Verg. A. 4, 131; Hor. Epod. 2, 33:

tunica,

Ov. Am. 1, 5, 13; and:

cribrum,

id. M. 12, 437:

rariores silvae,

the thinner, clearer parts of the forest, Tac. Agr. 37:

seges,

Col. 2, 9, 6:

corpus (opp. solidae res),

Lucr. 1, 347; 2, 860; 6, 631 al.:

aër,

id. 2, 107; cf. in the comp., id. 6, 1024:

manus,

i.e. with the fingers spread apart, Quint. 11, 3, 103:

raraque non fracto vestigia pulvere pendent,

i.e. scarcely visible, Stat. Th. 6, 640.—

Transf.

Of things which stand apart from each other, far apart, here and there, scattered, thin, scanty ( = disjectus;

opp. densus, confertus): cum raris disjectisque ex aedificiis pabulum conquireretur,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 10; cf.:

vides habitari in terrā raris et angustis in locis,

scattered, Cic. Rep. 6, 19, 20:

apparent rari nantes,

Verg. A. 1, 118:

foramina,

Lucr. 5, 457:

bacae expanduntur rarae,

Plin. 17, 10, 11, § 60:

frutices in vertice,

Ov. H. 10, 25:

coma,

id. Am. 1, 8, 111; cf. capillus. Suet. Calig. 50:

racemi,

Verg. E. 5, 7:

umbra,

id. ib. 7, 46:

arbores,

Nep. Milt. 5, 3:

tela,

Ov. M. 12, 600 et saep. — Poet.:

manat rara meas lacrima per genas,

drop by drop, Hor. C. 4, 1, 34. —

In partic., in military lang., far apart, here and there, scattered about, dispersed, straggling, single (opp. confertus). accedebat huc, ut numquam conferti, sed rari magnisque intervallis proeliarentur, Caes. B. G. 5, 16; cf.:

rari in confertos illati,

Liv. 23, 27:

ipsi ex silvis rari propugnabant,

Caes. B. G. 5, 9; 5, 17; 7, 45; 7, 80; id. B. C. 1, 27 fin.:

Samnites raris ordinibus constiterant,

Liv. 9, 27; Curt. 4, 14, 14:

rara est acies,

Verg. A. 9, 508:

rarior acies,

Tac. H. 3, 25; Front. Strat. 3, 10, 4:

rarior acies,

Curt. 4, 15, 20: ut ordines suos non magnopere servarent. [p. 1525] rari dispersique pugnarent, Caes. B. C. 1, 44; cf. Tac. Agr. 37 fin.; Front. Strat. 1, 5, 23.—

Of any thing found in small numbers or which seldom takes place, few, rare (cf. paucus):

in omni arte... ut in ipsă virtute, optimum quidque rarissimum,

Cic. Fin. 2, 25, 81; cf.:

rarum genus (amicorum) et quidem omnia praeclara rara,

id. Lael. 21, 79:

raris ac prope nullis portibus,

Caes. B. G. 3, 12 fin.; cf.:

etiamsi rarus ejus rei, nonnullus tamen usus,

Quint. 8, 6, 30:

rarus enim est animus ad ea defendenda,

Sall. H. 3, 61, 7 Dietsch:

Idem rarum est, non sine usu tamen,

Quint. 5, 11, 42:

rari domos, plurimi amicorum tecta... petivere,

Tac. H. 1, 79 fin.:

Oceanus raris ab orbe nostro navibus aditur,

id. G. 2:

aliquod solitarium aut rarum,

Cic. Inv. 1, 44, 83:

ut anteponantur rara vulgaribus,

id. Top. 18, 69:

litterae,

Liv. 6, 1; cf. id. 7, 3:

rara hostium apparebant arma,

id. 2, 50:

lites,

Quint. 7, 1, 43:

infelicitas,

id. 11, 2, 49:

quae (littera) est apud nos rarissima in clausulis,

id. 12, 10, 31:

quod est magis rarum,

id. 9, 2, 73:

ex maxime raro genere hominum,

Cic. Lael. 17, 64; cf. Quint. 7, 3, 25:

raris vocibus hisco,

Verg. A. 3, 314:

rara per ignotos errent animalia montes,

id. E. 6, 40:

audiet pugnas vitio parentum Rara juventus,

Hor. C. 1, 2, 24. —Rarum est, with ut:

rarum est, ut, etc.,

Quint. 3, 10, 3; 6, 3, 38; 10, 7, 24:

rarum dictu, esse aliquid, cui prosit neglegentia,

Plin. 18, 16, 39, § 140.—

Mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the adv. raro, seldom, rarely:

nec Iliacos coetus nisi rarus adibat,

Ov. M. 11, 766; cf.:

rarus, qui tam procul a portu recessisset, reperiebatur,

Quint. 12, prooem. § 3; so,

rarus fuit, qui, etc.,

id. 6, 2, 3:

antiquis scriptoribus rarus obtrectator,

Tac. A. 4, 33; Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 22, p. 233 Gerl.:

Caesar rarus egressu,

Tac. A. 15, 53; cf.:

leones rari in potu,

Plin. 8, 16, 18, § 46:

(calculus) rarus inventu,

id. 28, 15, 61, § 217; cf.:

helxine rara visu est,

id. 21, 16, 56, § 96:

Homerus alias circa picturas pigmentaque rarus,

i. e. rarely speaks of them, id. 33, 7, 38, § 115 —

Poet., in partic., uncommon of its kind, scarce, rare, extraordinary, remarkable:

rara puella fuit,

Prop. 1, 17, 16; so,

Cynthia,

id. 1, 8, 42:

ministra deae,

id. 4 (5), 11, 52; cf.:

rara quidem facie, sed rarior arte canendi,

Ov. M. 14, 337:

facies,

id. H. 17, 93 Ruhnk.:

vestis,

Cat. 69, 3:

avis (sc. pavo),

Hor. S. 2, 2, 26:

fides,

id. C. 1, 35, 21:

artis opus rarae,

Tib. 3, 4, 37:

patulis rarissima ramis,

Ov. M. 7, 622:

rarissima turba,

id. A. A. 2, 281:

rarissimi ingenii homo,

Sen. Contr. 28:

conjux rarissima,

Stat. S. 5, 1, 11.— Hence, adv., usually raro (class.), but sometimes rare (ante - class. and postAug.), rarenter (ante- and post - class.), or rariter (late Lat.).

Form rārō:

raro nimium dabat quod biberem,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 20:

potavi, edi, donavi, et enim id raro,

id. Bacch. 4, 10, 6:

si id, quod raro fit, fieri omnino negetur,

Cic. Inv. 1, 43, 80:

evenire insolenter et raro (opp. vulgo),

id. ib. 1, 28, 43:

vinum aegrotis prodest raro, nocet saepissime,

id. N. D. 3, 27, 69; id. de Or. 3, 52, 101; cf. id. Or. 24, 80:

sed tamen raro habet in oratione poeticum aliquod verbum dignitatem,

id. de Or. 3, 38, 153:

raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit poena,

Hor. C. 3, 2, 31: admodum raro, Cic. Fat. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12;

for which we find raro admodum,

Quint. 11, 1, 14; Plin. 2, 50, 51, § 135:

raro umquam,

Quint. 4, 1, 4; 5, 7, 22; Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 93:

ita raro,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 13, 37:

sic raro,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 1:

tam raro,

Ov. M. 13, 117:

quam raro,

Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 25:

perquam raro,

Plin. 37, 4, 15, § 55.— Comp.:

quod si rarius fiet, quam tu exspectabis,

Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 1.— Sup.:

istud rarissime accidere,

Col. 5, 5, 7:

non affari nisi rarissime,

Suet. Claud. 3.—

Form rārē (acc. to I.), far apart, thinly, sparsely, here and there:

nisi rare conseritur, vanam et minutam spicam facit,

Col. 2, 9, 5:

tenui vimine rarius contextus saccus,

id. 9, 15, 12.—

(Acc. to II. B.) Of time, seldom, rarely:

vero rare capitur (piscis),

Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 56.—

Form rārenter, seldom, rarely:

dato rarenter bibere,

Cato, R. R. 103; so, rarenter, Liv. And., Enn., Caecil., Nov., Trab., Pompon. ap. Non. 515, 23 sq.; 164, 25 sq.; App. Flor. 3, p. 357, 22. —

Form rārĭter (very rare): quidquid fit rariter, magis delectat, Schol. Juv. 11, 208.